DANCIGER OIL & RFG. CO. ET AL.
v.
SMITH ET AL.

U.S. | 1933-12-04
No. 566
290 U.S. 599 Supreme Court of the United States (1933) Positive Treatment
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Danciger Oil & Refining Co. sought review of a District Court decree, but the parties stipulated that the case had become moot, and the Supreme Court granted the motion to reverse and remand with directions to dismiss the bill of complaint as moot. The Court affirmed the principle that federal courts lack jurisdiction to decide cases that have become moot during litigation.

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The motion of the appellant for leave to file statement as to jurisdiction is granted. On consideration of a stipulation of the parties that this cause has become moot and of a motion by the appellant to reverse the decree of the District Court'and to remand the cause to that court with directions) to dismiss the bill as moot, it is ordered that the said motion be, and it is hereby, granted, and that the decree of the specially constituted District Court rendered in this case is reversed, and the cause is remanded to that court with directions to dismiss the bill of complaint upon the ground that the cause is moot. Brownlow v. Schwartz, 261 U.S. 216; Alejandrino v. Quezon, 271 U.S. 528, 535, 536; U.S. ex rel. Norwegian Nitrogen Products Co. v. Tariff Commission, 274 U.S. 106, 112; Railroad Commission of Texas v. MacMillan, 287 U.S. 576; Coyne v. Prouty, 289 U.S. 704; First Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Consumers Co., ante, p. 585. All costs in this Court and in the court below are to be taxed against the appellant as stipulated.

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  • United States v. Munsingwear, Inc., 340 U.S. 36 (U.S. 1950)
    …Bradford, 283 U. S. 781; Mahan v. Hume, 287 U. S. 575; Railroad Commission of Texas v. Macmillan, 287 U. S. 576; Coyne v. Prouty, 289 U. S. 704; First Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Consumers Co., 290 U. S. 585; Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Smith, 290 U. S. 599; O’Ryan v. Mills Novelty Co., 292 U. S. 609; Hammond Clock Co. v. Schiff, 293 U. S. 529; Bracken v. S. E. C., 299 U. S. 504; Leader v. Apex Hosiery Co., 302 U. S. 656; Woodring v. Clarksburg-Columbus Short Route Bridge Co., 302 U. S. 658; Retail Fo…
  • Farmers Educ. & Coop. Union of Am. v. Wday, Inc., 360 U.S. 525 (U.S. 1959)
    …b. 348, 243 N. W. 82. Following this decision the case .was remanded for a new trial. Appeal from a judgment for plaintiff was dismissed by the Supreme Court of Nebraska. Appeal to this Court was dismissed sub nom. KFAB Broadcasting Co. v. Sorensen, 290 U. S. 599, because, as the records of this Court disclose, the Supreme Court of Nebraska's holding had been based on adequate state grounds, namely, that the case had become moot through settlement. See Lamb v. Sutton, 164 F. Supp. 928; Yates v. Associated B…
  • Acheson v. Droesse, 197 F.2d 574 (D.C. Cir. 1952)
    …v. Macmillan, 287 U.S. 576 [53 S.Ct. 223, 77 L.Ed. 505]; Coyne v. Prouty, 289 U.S. 704 [53 S.Ct. 658, 77 L.Ed. 1461]; First Union Trust & Savings Bank v. Consumers Co., 290 U.S. 585 [54 S.Ct. 61, 78 L.Ed. 517]; Danciger Oil & Refining Co. v. Smith, 290 U.S. 599 [54 S.Ct. 209, 78 L.Ed. 526]; O’Ryan v. Mills Novelty Co., 292 U.S. 609 [54 S.Ct. 779, 78 L.Ed. 1469]; Hammond Clock Co. v. Schiff, 293 U.S. 529 [55 S.Ct. 146, 79 L.Ed. 639]; Bracken v. S. E. C., 299 U.S. 504 [57 S.Ct. 18, 81 L.Ed. 374]; Leader v. A…

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